The word 学会 is formed by combining two conceptual actions into a single, unified outcome. The first character, 学 (xué), represents the process of studying or learning. The second, 会 (huì), represents the achievement of being able to do something or having mastered it. When placed together, they sequentially depict the journey from engaging in study to arriving at a state of competence or understanding, thus forming the complete idea of "to learn" in the sense of successfully acquiring a skill or knowledge, or as a noun for an academic "society" or "institute" founded on that shared mastery.